And keep in mind that this outbreak is as big as it is bcz of cuts to USAID, who would normally be on the ground doing preventative monitoring and would’ve caught the outbreak before it had spread as much as it had.

I feel like we're already there.

substack.com/@rawstory/no... Kevin O’Leary in his suit and flip flops once again a dunks on himself. You have to watch this. Kevin should just stop going on TV. lol.

Ooh, this'll upset the Federalist Society... and hopefully into fatal cardiac arrests for every one of 'em. 🙂 youtube.com/shorts/tzy0O...

he won!

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

SHEEP DETECTIVES was brilliant and I loved it!! But this might be the last time I go to the theatre. I've only been a couple times since the pandemic and every trailer was retread IP or gross misogynistic crap and I don't need 20min of shit ads for corpo films being made under fascist influence

No matter how innocently it's seemingly done, this act of inputting others' (published or unpublished, copyrighted or not) creative work into a chatbot makes one an accomplice to intellectual property theft.

Shame on all the Rs plus 8 Dems who just voted for a bigoted bill to harass trans kids by requiring parental consent before they can change their pronouns in school. The 8: Henry Cuellar Don Davis Cleo Fields Laura Gillen Vicente Gonzalez Marcy Kaptur Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Eugene Vindman

I'm going to see the Sheep Detectives

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

I am not remotely a lawyer but am an agent, and I would like the publisher to ensure nothing in the review, editing, production, publication, or promotion of the book is performed by or connected to AI without the author's knowledge.

MAY SOLARPUNK BOOKCLUB coming up this weekend! DATE: May 23rd 8pm ET Book: Forest on the Edge of Time Jitsi Meet link: meet.jit.si/May2026Solar... Solarpunk Future! Discord: https://discord.gg/2VkbQsT2B #bo#bookskyo#bookclub

The forces of evil are trying to co-opt a lot of good things in order to both keep us from enacting them and keep us from coming after THEM. Example: UBI I just read a *great* article about UBI as a "social vaccine"... 1/n

Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead. Chart via @patrickkaczmarczyk.bsky.social

OPEN MINDS: a world where everyone reads minds except one girl, who controls them instead. The Mindjack trilogy launched my indie career. Years later, I wrote a 2nd trilogy, starting w/ LOCKED TIGHT (Bk 4). Get both free for one more day! (now on @bookshop.org!) susankayequinn.com/series/mindj...

LOVE THIS www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/envir... I seriously want to grow some native plant seedlings and put them out for people to take; too late for this season but if I plan ahead and do some seed collecting from my native garden this fall then maybe next spring...

“We want a beautiful poetic design that belongs to the West Desert." GUESS WHAT DOESNT BELONG IN A DESERT GENSLER

UPDATE: my mini greenhouse needs a mini climate battery (that stores heat in the SOIL) running off solar youtu.be/3ZldwYGczhU?...

"We sold it to them as a replacement for their jobs, their friends, their loved ones, and every creative endeavour ever conceived by human beings, I don't understand why they're upset" Makes you wonder just how empty wealthy people's lives really are.

Back before most of those were an issue, I used to say "You don't have to be an engineer to see a problem with a combustion engine that works off of orphaned kittens, and shouldn't need to be one to criticize it." Oh, I miss the days when that felt like hyperbole.

Hopefully they’re at least separated from real books and shuttled off to some poorly trafficked corner of the store.

this is a masterpiece

I need a setting that allows a post to be shared just enough times to reach the cool people who get it but then stop short of attracting all the angry hot-takers bent on misunderstanding or just primal screaming their anger in your direction.

y'all need to stop using Google for search for real (I'm on DDG with the AI turned off, a thing you can still do for the moment)

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

The $1.8 Billion, taxpayer funded, sell out to MAGA loyalists is how Trump seeks to fund fascist organizations in the US. It’s taking place in the context of Trump using DOJ to go after those who oppose him We are in the heat of the fight to overthrow fascism in the US. We must defeat this effort!

we got a lot of work to do to reimagine our relationship with nature

check out this kickstarter from my friend @reasie.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

updated my bio cuz some life turbulence has put the literary solarpunk novel (temporarily) on pause and also the AI quote needed an update (I *will* get back to podcasting at some point, but that's also on a bit of a pause while I get things sorted) Should probably update the pinned post too...

The forces of evil are trying to co-opt a lot of good things in order to both keep us from enacting them and keep us from coming after THEM. Example: UBI I just read a *great* article about UBI as a "social vaccine"... 1/n

I think we may be missing the boat by not touting the health benefits - mental and physical - of UBI. The savings to the healthcare system would probably cover a fair chunk of a true UBI in Canada, but just knowing that citizen health would be substantially improved should help get people on board.

Toby the African pygmy falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) is taking a dust bath at the Cincinnati Zoo. Birds secrete oil from a uropygial gland ('preen gland') that is antimicrobial, conditions & adds waterproofing. A dust bath helps remove this oil so a fresh layer can be applied.

I grew up reading about the brutality of bigotry, the bravery of the civil rights era & the fight for the right to vote. And now, at age 60, the brutality of bigotry is trying to rise again. America, stamp out your ugly fascism now or we all perish. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-16-2026

VOTE TODAY, PA!

New Tech CEO gets told to Fuck Off by the entire Marketplace of Ideas just dropped. kotaku.com/eric-schmidt...

conclusion: it is directly bad for your health to engage services with people who are AI enthusiasts

As you read about Trump stealing $1.8 billion in our money to pay off terrorists who tried to overthrow the government, consider that 3 million Americans have already lost ACA healthcare coverage & 19 million more are paying thru the nose to keep theirs. charlesgaba.substack.com/p/new-series...

idk seems bad

the media's deliberate choice of ignoring murders of trans people also makes it ever easier for liberals, who have often find us inconvenient, dismiss the concerns of trans people, of trans women, by saying we're all moving to safe blue cities in blue states

I hope for a savaging of Silicon Valley that they so richly deserve (Skeptical Sue says they'll tap the hatred in the populace with a trailer like this to get people in the theatres&then somehow, miraculously, people will leave the theatre ready to invest in AI stock) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZL6...

this sucks don't let your friends believe the greenwashing Shein + Everlane are trying to pull here

lol any way 💅

The original article by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social was most excellent, definitely need to check this out...

oh good I definitely want more PFAS in my water

Tomorrow, we got big primary contests in #KY04, Pennsylvania (namely in #PA03, #PA10 and #PA07) and some major ones in Georgia with #GAGov and #GASen. Here's your preview for tomorrow's races. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...